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Bovill-Stuckey Trip

Created on: 01/11/09 04:38 AM Views: 2141 Replies: 9
Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:38 PM

Train to Washington DC... bus to NYC... bus back to DC... train home. What a trip. This is what got me interested in travel.

Ken Kelsey
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Edited 04/05/09 03:33 PM
RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 11:30 AM

Boy! What a trip! The train going through Pittsburgh about one in the morning and seeing those huge glowing ingots of steel roll out of the mills. Going to the Automat in New York, staying at the Henry Hudson Hotel? not sure, my roomies Roger Cope and Tim Roberts, Radio City, Empire State Building,etc. I still have the photo of our group in front of the capitol building. I think it was the last trip for Mr. Bovill, and since some of us were January grads we had to take the trip in the spring of 1958.

Ken Barna

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Edited 04/05/09 03:34 PM
Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Saturday, April 11, 2009 11:10 AM

• This trip was fantastic in so many ways.  There was a hamburger place that advertised them for 10 cents.  I went in late at night and ordered one.  A big burley guy laid it on the counter and seemed displeased over my only spending a dime.

• I stayed out after the curfew in Washington to see the movie "The Guns of Navarone".  Mr. Stuckey said I would receive some discipline.  I was confined to one car on the train trip back to Detroit. 

John Herrold
Somewhere in Arizona or Michigan

 
Edited 04/11/09 11:20 AM
RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 01:38 AM

Ok, I remember walking up the stairs at the Empire State Building. Who does that? I wasn't alone. Who were the other idiots/athletes who did that with me. Also, I remember going to Jack Dempsey Restaurant because it was suppose to be so cool....Tavern on the Green wasn't there yet. Everything else is a blur. Don't remember anything educational. There is a picture somewhere. Does anyone have it to post. That would be fun. Cathy Cassidy Lyons

 
RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 06:47 PM

Who remembers the boat ride out to see the Statue of Liberty?  Something happened to the  boat while in route and we were pushed by a tug boat or barge back to shore.  I can still remember how disappointed we all were.

Barb Sargent Rafford

 
RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 09:35 PM


Barbara K. Sargent Rafford wrote:

Who remembers the boat ride out to see the Statue of Liberty?  Something happened to the  boat while in route and we were pushed by a tug boat or barge back to shore.  I can still remember how disappointed we all were.

It was the Circle Line Tours. The steering broke and a tugboat pushed us back. Bummer!

Ken Kelsey
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RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 05:40 PM

I rember most of us were not dissapointed for the return to dock. After the long overnight train ride and bus ride I think we all were ready to return to Hotel and party

 Ron

 
RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:32 PM

I remember the trip  I remember the tug boat rescuing us some where I have pictures of it  think when we got back we were supposed to go to the Radio City Music Hall to see the rockettes so we went the next day and I was so tired I slept thru the whole show also will look for the picture of the trip I know I have it but no idea where Mr Stucky ran behind and was in it twice and so did Mike Rising Cathy I can't believe you climbed all those steps I think I would have died

we did walk down the steps of the Washington monument some guys ran down and were just shaking when they finished and the chaperone's were so worried does anyone else remember Mr White and others standing out and telling us if we didn't behave there would  be no more senior trips and thinking that is an idle threat most of us don't care we are here now and won't be on another redford senior trip  guess I wasn't very nice not to think of the future classes   does anyone else remember the trip to the "Jack and Jill Dude Ranch"

I remember that as great fun too 

andrea cristelli graham

 
Edited 07/02/09 10:11 AM
RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Monday, July 6, 2009 01:39 AM

I went Junior year.  Roomates were Carole Cheyne, Garnet Rochon, Pat Redmon and my friend from grade school who went to Mercy, Polly Doll.  I remember going to some hotel dining room and listening to  one of the big bands play.  Waiter asked what we wanted to drink, and we all sat tongue tied wondering if he meant alcohol or what.  Finally Polly being her parents bartender on many occasions said I she wanted a Tom Collins, and we all said yeah that's what we wanted too.  We had a couple of them with dinner and were feeling mighty fine!!!  On the way back to the hotel, someone got brazen and went into a licquor and brought back a bottle of Gin to the room.  I "lucked out" with the cot that night and since I can't stay awake when I drink, apparently, I didn't have anymore but let me tell you the rest of them did, and you had to line up to get into the bathroom and when you did the smell of God knows what and Gin filled the place.....I haven't had Gin since  and I doubt any of them have either, but the good news was I was the only one without a hangover the next day enjoying the Automat and also the United Nations Tour while they tried to appear bright eyed and bushy-tailed. 

When we got to DC(we took the train everywhere that year) there was a senior class on our floor from Lebanon Junction KY all 26 of them.  This guy, named Brad. asked me to go with them to hear jazz.  Silly me said yes and off we went to Georgetown where we asked the taxi driver for a good place to go.  Once we got to the "dive" I realized they were going to check IDS and yours truely was 16 and all of them were already 18.  That poor guy took me back to the hotel, borrowed another classmates' drivers license, told me to memorize it and back we went.  Well, I have no idea why they let me in because this girl was about 6 feet tall and had long blonde hair and I was 5' 2" with very short dishwater blonde hair.  The sad thing was once we got in the rest of them didn't want to stay any longer as it truely was a dive.  So back to the hotel we went and he took me across the street for coffee and we just sat there and talked until curfew.  

He ended up being a really nice guy from a very small town and we  corresponded  with each other for several years.  If my kids did anything like that they would have been grounded for life, but I have to say that times were very different!!!  But I get goosebumps thinking about how stupid I was to go somewhere with  total strangers without even one friend with me!!!  I stayed on the bus while everyone else climbed the Washington Monument because I had dislocated my knee the year before and was having the first of several surgeries once school was out. 

Needless to say it was a fun trip and I do remember the Radio City Music Hall show and finally went back last Dec taking my daughter and two granddaughters as well.  But it took decades to get over being knocked over onto the sidewalk when I bent over to pick up what turned out to be a ten dollar bill and a lady in her 60's knocked me over to grab it  for herself.  It didn't belong to her either, and I realized  then how aggressive New Yorkers could be!!  But I love that city and would go there every month if we could afford it.  I too believe that trip was the start of my wanderlust.  And who knew I would end up living in the DC suburbs(ie N. VA) for 27 plus years!!!!

     

 
Edited 07/06/09 02:09 AM
RE: Bovill-Stuckey Trip
Posted Wednesday, July 8, 2009 05:40 PM

NYC and DC at 17 or 18, we all thought we were sooo sophisticated!  I do remember Jack Dempsey's and Birdland.  When I graduated from State I moved to NY and still love it today.

Cindy Palk Cohen

 
 

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